{"id":8476,"date":"2017-03-04T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kim-jong-nam-killing-malaysia-expels-north-korean-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:35:35","slug":"kim-jong-nam-killing-malaysia-expels-north-korean-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kim-jong-nam-killing-malaysia-expels-north-korean-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-nam killing: Malaysia expels North Korean ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Media captionWhy was North Korea&#039;s Kim Jong-nam killed?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Malaysia says it has expelled the North Korean ambassador over the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korea&#039;s leader.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Chol must leave Malaysia within 48 hours, the foreign ministry says.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, died three weeks ago after two women smeared a deadly chemical over his face at a Kuala Lumpur airport.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has not directly blamed North Korea for the attack, but there is suspicion Pyongyang was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#039;s ambassador, Mr Kang, was declared &quot;persona non grata&quot; on Saturday after he said his country &quot;could not trust&quot; Malaysia&#039;s handling of the investigation, and that the probe was being interfered with.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian Foreign Minister, Anifah Aman, said in a statement that his country had demanded an apology from the envoy for the comments, but none was forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Malaysia will react strongly against any insults made against it or any attempt to tarnish its reputation,&quot; Mr Anifah said.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia was one of very few countries, which had relatively friendly relations with North Korea.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      North Korea&#039;s ambassador was declared &quot;persona non grata&quot; by Malaysia                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-39166683 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media captionWhy was North Korea&#039;s Kim Jong-nam killed? Malaysia says it has expelled the North Korean ambassador over the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korea&#039;s leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}